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Interactive Analysis Option 1 - TaskView

TaskView provides information about the components of the monitored address space. When first invoked, the TaskView panel displays all of the monitored tasks. You might select specific tasks to focus your analysis.

CA MAT -------------------------- TaskView ------------------ Row 1 to 5 of 5 COMMAND ===> SCROLL ===> CSR Primary commands: SELect, RECall, ADDHelp Profile: DB2SAMP Options: NORMAL Line commands: T - Tag C - Code Details U - Untag D - Delay Details LC Program T Actv% Data% System% VolWait% InvWait% Other% Total% ________ _ _____ _____ _______ ________ ________ ______ ______ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- __ DFHKETCB 13.47 38.37 0.00 33.88 0.00 0.00 85.71 __ DFHD2EX3 3.67 0.00 0.00 3.27 0.00 0.00 6.94 __ DFHD2EX3 1.63 0.00 0.00 2.45 0.00 0.00 4.08 __ DFSPAT00 0.41 2.45 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 2.86 __ **N/A** 0.41 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.41

TaskView displays one line for each unique task that is detected during the monitored period. From this perspective, you see which tasks are delayed and the reasons for the delay. CA Mainframe Application Tuner reports on all tasks in the address space except the initiator and dump services.

The available commands for TaskView are described next.

SELect

Selects only the tagged tasks for analysis.

RECall

Displays all tasks for analysis.

ADDHelp

Invokes the content-sensitive Help application to update or create a help entry for the selected content.

T

Tag line command that is used to select up to five tasks for analysis.

U

Untag line command that is used to clear a selected task.

C

CodeView Detail line command that is used to display the CodeView Detail panel showing activity detected by CA Mainframe Application Tuner.

The CodeView Detail panel is described next.

D

DelayView Detail line command that is used to display the DelayView Detail panel showing the types of delays encountered by CA Mainframe Application Tuner.

The DelayView Detail panel is described later.

The delay information that displays on the TaskView panel is described next.

Profile

Name of the profile that you specified when you created the monitor definition.

Options

Type of analysis in effect: NORMAL, ALL, ACTIVE, or WAIT.

An asterisk (*) following the value indicates that tasks or transactions have been selected for analysis.

Place the cursor on the Options field value and press Enter to display a pop-up panel listing the selected tasks/transactions.

Program

Program name associated with the task.

If a program name cannot be identified, the value **n/a** is substituted.

T

"X" indicates that the task has been tagged for analysis.

Actv%

Percentage of the monitored period that the CPU was actively processing the monitored application.

Data%

Percentage of the monitored period that the application was delayed because of an I/O request.

System%

Percentage of the monitored period that the application used system services.

Examples of these services are storage management and security checking.

VolWait%

Percentage of the monitored period that the application voluntarily waited for an event

InvWait%

Percentage of the monitored period that the application waited because one of the following situations occurred:

Other%

Percentage of the monitored period that was not attributable to any of the categories known to CA Mainframe Application Tuner.

Total%

Sum of the other six categories of delay.

Visual

Graphical representation of the Total% field.